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What image is conjured by a woman smoker? Is she chain-smoking Betty Draper living in a Mad Men world defined by advertising and women’s magazines, or grungy and addled Courtney Love, tossing her lipstick-smeared cigarette butts at unsuspecting and adoring fans?

Whether exemplifying the height of ladylike femininity or illustrating the depths of a disheveled mess, there is no denying that throughout history, smoking has come to define numerous female stereotypes.

Advertising has taken over the Internet. Artist Dave Greber, whose work we first saw in 2014 at Prospect in New Orleans, has added click-bait ad squares to the sides of his website. We approve the project for the simple pleasure of the remix. On the left: “5 Things You Should Never Do.” On the right: “Are E-Cigarettes really this good?”.

Are the Met and MoMA at war? The Lauder’s cubist collection went to the Met instead of MoMA, leading some to believe that, with shared interests, these institutions will need to fight over donors. It’s a juicy read, five pages full of quotes from the rich and art-famous. Met Director Thomas Campbell on MoMA: “sometimes we’re frenemies.” Larry Gagosian, being himself: “I love expansion!” [Vanity Fair]

Marketing whiz and artist Ryder Ripps has a show of Instagram paintings opening at Postmasters. It’s not even up, and it’s already received one bad review. [Jezebel]

Microsoft vaults itself into the future with the creation of HoloLens, a hologram headset yet-to-be released to the general public. Brian Crecente was able to demo one of the models, which comes with virtual reality, Skype, 3D gaming, and a 3D image-building capabilities. The future is now, though it feels like fiction: “The effect of wearing the glasses also doesn’t feel real. But not because it seems fake, rather because it is initially a bit unbelievable.” [Polygon]

Every month I await the Netflix death watch on Gothamist. It answers many a serial TV-watcher’s needs: which shows will go away forever over the next two weeks, and which will take their place. Only days remain to watch Jem and the Holograms (Seasons 1-3), Red Dwarf (Seasons 1-9), or My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (Seasons 1­-4). [Gothamist]

Linda Yablonsky reports that the Chelsea and Lower East Side art world seemed largely unphased by the Paris shooting. Mary Boone continues to wear ridiculous hats. [Artforum]

Wuuuuuttt. Places where dumb cashiers have been selling cigarettes to kids. Apparently this is the culture at Food Lion. [Vocativ]

Footbinding, a history. Apparently the 13th century Chinese trend was “inspired by a tenth-century court dancer named Yao Niang who bound her feet into the shape of a new moon.” GROSS. “The most desirable bride possessed a three-inch foot, known as a ‘golden lotus.’” [Smithsonian]

On Tuesday, a Belgian court found painter Luc Tuymans guilty of plagiarism. Or is it copyright infringement? Copy activist Joy Garnett has taken to Twitter to dispute the use of the term plagiarism. [The Guardian, @joygarnett]

Just a month after Obama re-opened travel to Cuba, the Bronx Museum and Cuba’s National Museum of Fine Arts plan the first Cuban-American art exchange. [New York Times]

Craig Anthony Miller is suing the Toll Brothers development company for using his murals to advertise for their condos. Ironically, the mural was torn down and replaced by townhouses, but he’d copyrighted the mural with permission from the wall’s owner. Smart move. [ANIMAL New York]

Houston, Texas’s Flower Man House, an “ever-evolving masterpiece of African-American yard show art” kept by the late Cleveland Turner, will be demolished. (Scattered throughout Houston are incredible homes full of “yard show art,” for lack of a better term.) The Project Row Houses organization is planning a commemorative billboard near the site of one of Turner’s former homes. [Texas Monthly]